Re: Vowels and vowelharmony in Akan

taliesin wrote:
>Vowel harmony, advanced tongue root (the Fante dialect has
>rounding harmony in some verb-affixes as well)
>
>SET  I: i  e  a. o  u  (ATR+)
>SET II: e. 3  a  c  o. (ATR-)
>
>Generally, in a word of more than one syllable, only vowels of one
>set may occur.
So the Fante dialect has a three way vowel harmony of ATR+, ATR-,
and rounding? How does this work? I have this suspicion that minor
vowels in Boreanesian has a three way vowel harmony, but I'm not
sure - perhaps because I don't understand how such a system works.

Regards,
-Kristian- 8-)